Simon Caldwell, Author at Crux

New data from Britain: 53 percent of adults say they have ‘no religion’
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- September 6, 2017
A new survey found that 15 percent of people in Britain consider themselves to be Anglican, compared to about 30 percent in 2000. The proportion of people who say they are Catholic has remained consistent, however, at about 10 percent for the past three decades. About 6 percent belong to non-Christian religions, an increase of 2 percent since 1983. Seventy-one percent of people ages 18-24 said they had no religion, up from 62 percent in 2015.
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Pope tells Belgian Brothers of Charity no more euthanasia for patients
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- August 8, 2017
The Brothers of Charity, which runs 15 centers for psychiatric patients across Belgium, formally implemented its euthanasia policy in June, just weeks after the bishops declared they would not accept euthanasia in Catholic institutions. About 12 psychiatric patients in their care are believed to have asked for euthanasia over the past year, with two transferred elsewhere to receive the injections to end their lives.
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African calls West’s imposition of abortion ‘cultural supremacy’
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- July 12, 2017
The British government co-hosted an international Family Planning Summit in London with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. Population Fund. The U.K. Department for International Development said the July 11 summit aimed to boost global commitment to “ensuring women and girls have access to family planning services.” Many Africans accuse the conference of behaving like “old colonial masters” by trying to impose abortion on the continent.
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Syriac Christian artist calls paintings of war ‘a cry for help’

Farid Georges, a Syriac Christian from Homs, Syria, is bringing the story of violence and displacement in his country to Catholic cathedrals of northwest England and Wales in an exhibition called “Portraits of Faith: Syria’s Christians Search for Peace.”

Church offers counseling to help students cope with trauma of London fire

John Paul Morrison, the director of education for the Archdiocese of Westminster, said he was “very proud” of the response to the tragedy of the Catholic Church “at every level.” Speaking about the response, he said, “It was good to see all elements of the church’s mission come together to address what is an incredibly said but also an incredibly complex situation.”

Vatican launches Belgium euthanasia investigation

The Vatican is formally investigating a group of psychiatric care centers in Belgium run by a Catholic religious order which has enforced that doctors in the facilities perform euthanasia. Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will be overseeing the situation himself.